The Tuesday Girl

By: Tanya Eby

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Even in your late 40s, you can still find a happily-ever-after, just maybe not the way you’ve read about in books.

The Tuesday Girl follows the author’s three-year journey of self-discovery while she heals from past relationships, figures out what she wants, and moves on with her life, creating something bold and beautiful along the way.

Tanya Eby is a narrator, and has performed over 1,100 audiobooks over her two-decade career. Half of her narrations have been of romance novels. You’d think with narrating all these romance titles, she’d have some deeper insight into romantic relationships. Yeah. Not so much.

In 2020, while the world is in lockdown, the author is starting over. Again. She leaves marriage number two and vows that she’s going to live a healthy and authentic life.

Told primarily through conversations, The Tuesday Girl is raw, witty, emotional, and ultimately inspirational. Tanya takes the listener on intimate dates, walks with friends, and conversations with people in her life. She falls in love with someone who she is certain is different from anyone she’s ever met, only to discover that he is a conman. Through it all, she relies on her friend Erin and learns that romance isn’t something that just happens in books—it’s something that runs throughout your own life.

©2023 Tanya Eby (P)2023 Blunder Woman Productions

Wonderful!

I loved this book. Beautifully written, wonderfully read. Do yourself a favor and grab this book!

Here’s to a “Big, Beautiful F’ing Life”

Wow, what a vulnerable, messy, gorgeous, important story. There are moments you cry with Tanya, want to yell at Tanya, wish you had friends like she does, and ultimately do a wild, silly, celebratory dance with, and for, Tanya. There are moments I saw so much of myself or someone I love, moments that took my breath away and made me ask a lot of questions. Moments of love and laughter and cheer. Moments of all kinds that make up a life; a beautiful, brave, raw, wonderful, reclamation of life, self, and soul. This book gives back all the breath it knocks out of you and is my kind of love story.

An honestly compelling memoir!

Tanya Eby's brave and honest memoir is excellent. She tells it like it is, and expresses it beautifully. I think everyone who's in search of love, wrestled with self worth, and been on the receiving end of "bizarre behavior" (which is pretty much everyone!) should read/listen to this.

Honestly human

Chortling and fist pumping by the end of chapter 61.
A rollercoaster ride almost all of us can relate to on some level.

Lovely

Heartbreaking, relatable, and ultimately hopeful. Beautifully narrated. Once I started listening I couldn’t stop until I finished it.

Loved it

Listening to this memoir is like being invited to into an intimate space to experience a slice of a new friend’s life, except the new friend feels like someone you’ve always known, and also kind of like you yourself. A cozy listen with many (sometimes surprising) moments of self-recognition, and an overall takeaway that is uplifting.

Honest, raw and wonderful.

I loved this memoir. It seems to me that the true love here is her best friend, Erin. How lucky is she to have someone in her life as wonderful? For this, I'm envious of that relationship. This book is so real and so raw at times. Just like life. Highly recommend. This is one that I'll read again. Thank you, Tanya, for opening your heart to all of us.

So Relatable!

I’ve been reading the author’s blog, and I just love how open, raw, and vulnerable her writing is. I’ve had this book on my TBR list since it came out, and once it finally had its turn, I devoured the audiobook in three days.

Tanya’s memoir is so incredibly relatable. I was enraptured throughout her story and very much enjoyed her narration as well. I’ve considered writing a memoir myself, and she’s inspiring me to finally do so.

For anyone who’s experienced the woes of trauma and a dysfunctional upbringing, it’s natural to subconsciously gravitate toward dysfunctional people and relationships. It’s hard to trust yourself when what feels like “home” isn’t what’s healthy. This memoir is a perfect vignette of this human experience.

Tanya’s play-by-play of self-discovery on her road to love, independence, and happiness is so real and visceral. I felt like I was listening to a friend and cheering her on as she finds herself and learns to set boundaries. Her self-discoveries are so insightful, that I feel like I’ve grown just from listening to this audiobook. She’s able to put things into words that I’ve struggled to communicate for years.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful part of yourself, Tanya. I can’t wait to discuss this tomorrow in book club!

An Everywoman’s Memoir

Author/narrator Tanya Eby delivers an account of her experiences of dating on the cusp of 50 that is much more than a diatribe of midlife. Readers are bound to identify with one or more threads of Eby’s work; be it through personal experience or that of others they are close to.

Although my own path differs in some ways from the author’s, I was straight up gobsmacked at just how much I could relate to; especially of the “things we think, but don’t say (or, in my case, work on)” variety.

From parenting to pandemic living and friendships to feelings of self doubt, Eby yanks the covers off of everything she has encountered, worked on, and continues to navigate. The Tuesday Girl is searingly honest, raw, sometimes sad, and often funny. Read it yourself and share it with others. If you don’t already have an Erin in your life, go out and get one - stat!

Love is not too much to ask for

Tanya Eby gives both heart and soul in her writing and her narration. This is a book for every woman and man who has been led on and lied to, and who believed it all because they just wanted to be loved. Love is not too much to ask for. In fact, as the author learns, it is what we deserve. And we'll have it if we refuse to settle for less.